Vol. XIII—No. 1.November 28, 1891.
PHILADELPHIA:

JAMES ELVERSON,

PUBLISHER.

[Advertising] (inside front cover)
[The Young Engineer]
[A Village Hampden]
[Rigging and Rigs]
[The North Avenue Archingtons]
[Pride and Poverty]
[A Prince of Ceylon]
[Stories of School Life]
[Mexico and the Mexicans]
[Something about Coal-Tar]
[Be Sure how You Begin]
[Eclipses and Historical Dates]
[The Volunteer Writer]
[Captain Clyde]
[Kidnapped]
[A Flock of Geese]
[Drawn into the Whirlpool]
[The Black Hound]
[Average]
[Lelia's Hero]
[Puzzledom]
[Queer Wrinkles]
[The Fierce Old Cat and the Clockwork Rat]
[Answers to Correspondents]
[Testimonials]
[Notices of Exchange]
[Advertising] (inside back cover)
[Advertising] (back cover)
[Display Problems]

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Set of Dominoes,
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Nine Men Morris Board, with men.
Mystic Age Tablet, tells age of any person.
The Beautiful Language of Flowers.
Morse Telegraph Alphabet.
The Improved Game of Forfeit.
Parlor Tableaux,
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50 Choice Conundrums or Riddles, with answers (new).
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Eleven Parlor Games,
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Philadelphia

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Eight Words average a line. Fourteen lines make one inch.
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Philadelphia, Pa.

To balance the page, two advertisements near the bottom of the page have been repositioned.

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Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria


(Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by James Elverson, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.)


VOL. XIII.JAMES ELVERSON,
Publisher.
N. W. corner Ninth
and Spruce Sts.
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 28, 1891.
TERMS$3.00 Per Annum,
In Advance.
No. 1.

[The Young Engineer]

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